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(April 10)\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eFOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus008583DENVER (AP) - With its recent string of high-profile victories in federal court, the gay marriage movement is hoping to build momentum to help it attain its long-held goal: A Supreme Court...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus008583\u003cbr/\u003eDENVER (AP) - With its recent string of high-profile victories in federal court, the gay marriage movement is hoping to build momentum to help it attain its long-held goal: A Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.\u003cbr/\u003eBut first they must convince federal appellate courts of the merits of their case.\u003cbr/\u003eThat quest begins Thursday in Denver and continues next week when a three-judge panel will hear arguments on whether they should uphold separate rulings by two federal judges that threw out same-sex marriage bans in Utah and Oklahoma.\u003cbr/\u003eThey do so, however, in a climate far different than 2004, when voters overwhelmingly approved the prohibitions in both states.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled that a law forbidding the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages was unconstitutional, eight federal judges in all have struck down state bans on gay marriage or on the recognition of same-sex marriages from other states.\u003cbr/\u003eAs the panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals considers the Utah case Thursday, experts say pressure is on the judges at a time when polls show a majority of Americans backing same-sex unions.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The challenge for conservative judge would be: Do you want to be the only court of appeals that upholds discrimination that the country is rapidly galloping to renounce?\" William Eskridge, a law professor at Yale University, said. \"The handwriting is on the wall.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOpponents say that shouldn't factor into the judges' calculations.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are strong political factors that seem to be driving these district court decisions,\" said Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., adding that expectations that the Supreme Court will ultimately find that gays have the right to marry may also feed into it.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's not the job of lower courts to predict where the Supreme Court will go,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite the legal momentum, attorneys say it is distinctly possible the 10th Circuit could rule against gay marriage backers and argue the issue is best settled at the ballot box.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's an institutional argument that we've seen at the Supreme Court and we've seen in state litigation,\" Douglas NeJaime, a law professor at the University of California-Irvine, said. \"If the court wanted to not say something about the merits, but uphold the ban, they could go that direction.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe three judges picked randomly to hear the case, and next week's appeal of the ruling that struck down an Oklahoma gay marriage ban, include two Republicans and one Democrat.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the Republicans, Jerome A. Holmes, appointed by President George W. Bush, initially voted against staying the trial court's ruling, which allowed more than 1,000 gay couples to wed in Utah in December before the Supreme Court stepped in and stayed the initial ruling.\u003cbr/\u003eThe other two judges are Carlos F. Lucero, appointed by President Bill Clinton, and Paul J. Kelly, Jr., appointed by President George H.W. Bush.\u003cbr/\u003eKenneth Upton, an attorney with the Lambda Legal Defense Fund who watches the 10th Circuit carefully, said the panel is a perfect representation of a court that is generally moderate and centrist.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you wanted to pick a panel where you could do a straw poll of the judiciary, this is a pretty good sample,\" Upton said.\u003cbr/\u003eIt will likely be months before the panel issues a ruling, which will become law in the six states in its jurisdiction unless it is stayed. Those states are Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming. New Mexico's Supreme Court has already legalized gay marriage in that state.\u003cbr/\u003eEven if the panel upholds the lower court's decision, the argument will only be settled when it moves one more level up to the Supreme Court. The high court could get a case either from the 10th circuit or one of the at least four other appeals courts scheduled to consider the issue.\u003cbr/\u003eStill, both sides say the stakes are high on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Having a victory from the 10th Circuit would be electrifying,\" said Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which is representing the plaintiffs in the Utah case. \"It would be extremely encouraging and help continue the incredible momentum.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJim Campbell, an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents religious organizations, said: \"The stakes are whether the people can continue to define marriage as between a man and a woman.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLawyers for Utah and several other organizations that have filed briefs supporting the state's side argue the ban should stand because the state has a right to promote marriage between a man and a woman, which is optimal for childrearing.\u003cbr/\u003eThe plaintiffs and gay rights proponents counter there is little data backing up the state's case on parenting and that the ban improperly deprives gay couples of the right to marriage.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Supreme Court sounded skeptical of the childrearing argument in its ruling last year, noting that gay couples raise children who are harmed by their parents' marriages not being recognized. The state Wednesday night filed papers distancing itself from a study it cited that purported to show children of heterosexual parents did better than children of gay ones.\u003cbr/\u003eUnderscoring the political pressure in the case, a pro-gay marriage group began airing ads supporting same-sex weddings in Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. About 200 gay marriage supporters Wednesday night held a rally outside the Denver courthouse where the hearing will occur.\u003cbr/\u003eThe gay marriage movement is moving so quickly that several new lawsuits challenging state same-sex marriage bans are filed each month. The latest came Wednesday in North Carolina.\u003cbr/\u003eAndrew Koppelman, a law professor at Northwestern University, said that societal change has made the final outcome inevitable.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't know what's going to happen in this case, but it's clear that the same-sex marriage movement has won,\" Koppelman said. \"Federal judges know that. You bring these cases before them, and they don't want to say 'No.'\"\u003cbr/\u003eDenver, CO - April 9, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Moudi Sbeity, plaintiff in case challenging Utah's ban on gay marriage: \u003cbr/\u003e````Our main goal and our main interest was to win that right for us in our home state.'' \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of gay rights supporters in front of 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments about Utah's same sex marriage ban. \u003cbr/\u003e3. Medium of two people wrapped in American flags, rainbow flag in the background.\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Derek Kitchen, lead plaintiff in case challenging Utah's ban on gay marriage: \u003cbr/\u003e````We are in the eye of the storm as you may want to put it. So it's been hard for us to really hang on and really get a grasp of exactly what this means but it's starting to sink in.'' \u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium of couple hugging. Rainbow flag with smiley face on it. \u003cbr/\u003e6. Tight of crayon drawn sign showing two moms and a child\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Derek Kitchen, lead plaintiff in case challenging Utah's ban on gay marriage: \u003cbr/\u003e````My grandfather and my father on Christmas day told me that they are proud to have the kitchen last name tied to this lawsuit and that was really touching for me because, they are so mormon.'' \u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide shot of crowd in front of the courthouse. Train passing in front. \u003cbr/\u003e9. Passenger on the train waving to rally attendees\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Derek Kitchen, lead plaintiff in case challenging Utah's ban on gay marriage: \u003cbr/\u003e````It's just fate, maybe, that a mormon, a child from a mormon family becomes a part of this historic case to legalize same sex marriage nationwide and it's really starting a conversation about acceptance.''\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of train leaving stop revealing crowd in front of courthouse. \u003cbr/\u003e12. Medium of Euell Santistevan holding a rainbow flag. \u003cbr/\u003e13. Tight of ````Future Groom'' button. \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Euell Santistevan, same sex marriage supporter: \u003cbr/\u003e````As a whole, people are starting to accept us more now that the higher courts are saying it's OK to be who you are.'' \u003cbr/\u003e15. Medium shot of rally attendee.\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kelly Insinna, same sex marriage supporter: \u003cbr/\u003e````We're not animals, ah, we're not predators. We're human beings. We have hearts, we laugh, we work. We pay taxes.'' \u003cbr/\u003e17. Medium shot of rally attendee holding a sign\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jill Higham, same sex marriage supporter: \u003cbr/\u003e````I'm here to let the federal judges know that, you know, I'm watching and that they have an obligation to follow the U.S. Constitution.'' \u003cbr/\u003e19. Tight of sign: ````Long Live Love.''\u003cbr/\u003e20. Medium of lighted signs spelling ````Marriage Equality''\u003cbr/\u003e21. Tight of woman holding the I\u003cbr/\u003e22. 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